💡 How do you think will 5G combined with AI, impact over lives? The 5G mobile cellular communications system provides a far higher level of performance than the previous generations of mobile communications systems.

The new 5G technology is not just the next version of mobile communications, evolving from 1G to 2G, 3G, 4G and now 5G. 🎯

Instead, 5G technology is very different. Previous systems had evolved driven more by what could be done with the latest technology. The new 5G technology has been driven by specific uses ad applications. 💯

5G has been driven by the need to provide ubiquitous connectivity for applications as diverse as automotive communications, remote control with haptic style feedback, huge video downloads, as well as the very low data rate applications like remote sensors and what is being termed the IoT, Internet of Things. Source: Electronics-notes.com. Video Credits: World Economic Forum. 💡
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Predicting the future is a mug’s game. Nearly every blog about the future starts with that sentence. It’s true, the future is going to hit us like a tonne of bricks and there’s not much we can do about it. Or can we?

Here’s my general thesis: Work will change, jobs will be fewer, we need to figure this out before it becomes a real problem.

Let’s start with one segment of one single disruption, one we know is coming: self-driving vehicles.

About 10 million jobs in the US are part of, or dependent on the trucking industry, and then another million in Canada. This is one of the last good, solidly middle-class jobs that you can get without a degree. And those jobs are in grave danger. Self-driving trucks spell the end of long-haul trucking. And truck stops, wait staff, cooks, etc.; dozens and dozens of jobs in dozens and dozens of little towns all across North America.

This isn’t all bad, it will mean fewer accidents, faster shipping, maybe even cheaper goods. But the bad (aside from the lives saved); the loss of so many middle-class jobs, far out ways any good. How do we re-employ that many people?

And this is a single disruptive force in a single industry. The future doesn’t look good for employment.